Ramez Naam Quotes

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.